Samuel Frederick Perry

Samuel Frederick Perry (born June 29, 1877 in Stockport , Cheshire , † October 19, 1954 in Willesden ) was a British politician ( Labor Party ).

Life and activity

Perry was a son of the cotton spinner Samuel Perry. With the help of a scholarship, Perry was able to attend the Stockport Grammar School, but had to drop out early after the death of his father in 1887 to become a cotton spinner. In the 1890s he devoted himself to politics: in 1917, on the occasion of the founding of the Co-Operative Party, he was appointed its first secretary, a post he would hold for over twenty-five years until 1942.

In a by-election in 1920 Perry first ran for a seat in the House of Commons , the British Parliament: In this election, he ran unsuccessfully in the constituency of Stockport. In the regular parliamentary election, he applied again - and again in vain - for a seat in parliament in this constituency. In the parliamentary elections in 1923, he was then elected as a candidate in the Kettering constituency in the House of Commons. In the early election of 1924, he lost his seat again, as he was in this election against the conservative candidate Mervyn Manningham-Buller . In the election of 1929 Perry was able to win back his old seat, but lost it again in the election of 1931 and this time finally to the Conservative John Eastwood . Perry was a member of the British House of Commons from 1923 to 1924 and from 1929 to 1931 as a member of parliament for a total of around three years.

In addition, Perry served until 1942 as the national secretary of the Co-operative Party and in 1924 as the private parliamentary secretary of the British Minister of Health and in 1929 as the private parliamentary secretary of the trade ministers (President of the Board of Trade).

family

Perry was born in his second marriage to Olive Elizabeth. Gardner married. One of his sons was the British tennis player Fred Perry .

Fonts

• Peace: The Co-operative Plan. The Co-operative Party's Peace Policy , 1938.

literature

• Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died During the Period. 1951-1960 , Vol. V, p. 867.